his opponent, the swedish king charles xii, attracted much more attention to him; he fought in the veryope against the polish king august, when august lost both the army and the polish throne charles remembered about russia and went to finish off peter, they met on june 27, 1709. on the great field, six miles from the chatter on the eve of the decisive battle. both monarchs. the commander circled his troops. karl promised his soldiers that tomorrow they would dine in the convoy of the russian tsar. he prepared a lot of food for us. go, tomorrow, where glory calls you, tsar peter also turned to his troops of war. here comes the hour that will decide the fate of the fatherland. therefore, you should not think that you are fighting for peter, but for the state of peter fatherland for our orthodox faith. the forces of the swedes in the battle amounted to 8,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry and four guns, the russian force was 25,000 infantry, 9,000 cavalry and 73 guns . more than 8,000 swedes killed and wounded 4,000 prisoners during the battle, another 17,000. with the retreat from that moment,